Quotes About Subjective

What is possible is subjective. It's a matter of perspective.

Nix et al. (1999) showed in experimental studies that whereas task success can produce happiness, only success at autonomously motivated tasks maintained or enhanced vitality. Finally, in new research, Bernstein and Ryan (2001) argued that subjective vitality can be affected by contact with nature.

but pain is a private business

People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget.

La verità, che una cosa sia buona, che un'altra sia cattiva, vale a dire il bene e il male, si credono naturalmente assoluti, e non sono altro che relativi. Quest'è una fonte immensa di errori e volgari e filosofici.

Religions are like farts — yours is good but everyone else's stinks.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

What determines when we stay wise rather than lurch into reactivity? Current research shows clearly that it's determined by our subjective sense of safety or its lack.

Personal isn't the same as important.

La belleza no es una idea absoluta y solo puede apreciarse por contraste.

same. Any credible conception of reality must include subjective experience that can consistently and universally lead to a useful objective (measurable by anyone) functionality. Much

The quantum world is as objective as our own: different people taking the same viewpoint see the same thing, but the quantum world is not made of objects (different viewpoints do not add up). The quantum world is objective but objectless.

And I have to say, books haven't helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there's always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is… Well, it's just you. And when you go, it's gone. Nothing abstract about it.

Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

in order to find truth, one must be ready to give up those subjective preferences in favor of objective facts. And facts are best discovered through logic, evidence, and science.

But truth is not a subjective matter of taste—it's an objective matter of fact.

Taste is subjective, but some subjective opinions are casually expressed the same way we articulate principles of math or science

Little voice gives us the facts. Big voice gives us the meaning—or at least a character's subjective interpretation of the events.

Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture.

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -- second only to American political campaigns -- the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

It's what you feel, and guess what? Feelings are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.